Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on Tuesday called up Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani and informed him about the accident. He also Jilani that any security concerns that they may have about the security of their staff working in New Delhi would be addressed. He also informed that action had already been taken in both cases of accident case with the arrest of the errant drivers.
The call was made in the context of need to ensure high-level contact at a time when the Pakistani High Commissioner to India was in Islamabad and the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad was in Delhi for consultations Earlier in the day, Pakistan had summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gopal Baglay to lodge a protest over the road-rage incident. The Pakistan High Commission, which in a statement termed the incident most unfortunate and regrettable, had on Monday lodged a strong protest over the assault with the Ministry of External Affairs urging immediate and thorough inquiry into the incident.